Bethlehem gets first photos of the three richest public collections of the world
© Photo by Brassaï. Young couple near the Place d'Italie. Paris, 1932. For the first time Bethlehem will receive 100 photographs chosen from among thousands of other conserved in the National Library of France, the Musée d'Orsay and Centre Pompidou in Paris - three of the richest public collections in the world. Each of these images comes with a text that tells the history of photography and its author, France and the French. The choice of a single work of each artist allowed to present a hall of great photographers, such that Nicéphore Niépce, Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard, Gustave Le Gray, Charles Nègre, Eugène Cuvelier, the Bisson brothers, Felix Nadar or Eugene Atget. In to expose some photographers rarely shown, such as Edouard Baldus, Charles Marville or Auguste Collard, and even amateurs anonymous or famous, such as Jacques Henri Lartigue and Count Robert de Montesquiou. Among the selected photos are of Brassaï, Hungarian who arrived in Paris in 1924 and became known as the Paris cabaret show at night. By 1932 he photographed a young couple in a small Parisian café near the Place d'Italie. He, with gomalina hair. She, smiling and in love. The mirror reduplicate the impetus of passion. The continuation of this trend can be followed at 100 x exposure France, which will open on Friday, December 11th at 19:30 at the Museum House of Eleven Windows (Praça Dom Frei Caetano Brandão, s / n. Old Town) . The exhibition runs until January 10, 2010, with visiting hours from 10h to 16h, from Tuesday to Sunday. The entrance to the museum costs $ 2.00, and on Tuesdays the entrance is free.
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